I disagree with utkal on "rootedness", in the sense that nothing about films like Welcome.    From Wordnik.com.  [NAACHGAANA] Reference

It yields an identity born of displacement, not rootedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters] Reference

Oh yeah, and ignoring the deep-rootedness that makes it so persistent.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Which I Consider Supporting Obama] Reference

He binds landscape and rootedness with the primordial affinity to the Greeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference

What sort of change is possible given the rootedness and pervasiveness of the problem?.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Conversation with Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson] Reference

And that's been combined in the last decade with a real rootedness in the life of Cumbria.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop's farewells from the February 2009 Synod] Reference

I mean, there's a-- there's a particular rootedness, I think, in knowing your grandparents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twentieth-Century] Reference

Poor drainage and overwatering also cause shallow rootedness as the roots avoid waterlogged soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [5. How plants live and grow] Reference

Indeed, that very rootedness may help explain their remarkable staying power over the last eight years.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Astore: The Price of Pushing Our Troops Too Far] Reference

To engage in this way is not a sign of weakness or fuzzy edges, it's a sign of strength and rootedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archbishop's address to Faith Leaders in Birmingham] Reference

Others see a turn away from nomadic lifestyles and towards greater rootedness, which has a certain appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ashpocalypse Now] Reference

The vegetables also gave me their rootedness, strength, and vital connection to air, water, sun, and soil.    From Wordnik.com.  [When Animals Speak] Reference

You have to make a-- you have to combine a sense of internationalism with a sense of rootedness and inclusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 5, 2009] Reference

My secular, liberal friends clearly derive much of their identity and their rootedness from their political faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Church and State, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

In some sense, this ambivalence may come down to the ambivalence of radicality (and rootedness) itself. close window.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes on ''At the Far End of this Ongoing Enterprise...''] Reference

Park where ANC activists have developed a unique and dynamic ANC branch characterized by its rootedness among the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [ACCELERATING THE PACE OF CHANGE] Reference

Such rootedness nurtured her literary imagination, as is evident in her first and best novel, The Sacrifice (Toronto: 1956).    From Wordnik.com.  [Canada: From Outlaw to Supreme Court Justice, 1738-2005.] Reference

I especially liked its rootedness in the future geography of London, and the exploration of art, creativity and personality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Librarything picture meme] Reference

Pacific is a relatively young yearly meeting, without much rootedness in the way Quakerism was before the twentieth century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quaker Query: Have you found your vocation? | Mind on Fire] Reference

And that rootedness in God's clear purpose relates the existence of Israel to more comprehensive hopes for the created world.    From Wordnik.com.  [A lecture given at a conference on 'The place of Covenant in Judaism, Christianity and Jewish-Christian relations' Centre for the Study of Jewish Christian Relations, Cambridge] Reference

Perhaps, from it I can learn more about deep-rootedness, authenticity, strength, obstinacy, love for its children and its people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ir Amim: Voices From Jerusalem: An Arab Citizen of Israel Discovers Jerusalem] Reference

Our ancestors, for all their privations, enjoyed a greater sense of rootedness in a human community than most of us can find in America today.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stranger in a Familiar Land: The Introduction to My Book, *The Illusion of Choice*] Reference

As proof of El Cid's rootedness in the world of Muslim Spain, the poem itself recounts the close friendship that he had with the Moor Abengalbon.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Shasha: Charlton Heston's 'El Cid': A Hero for Our Time] Reference

He was looking for a community that he could call home — a sense of rootedness and belonging he missed from his biracial, peripatetic childhood.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding His Faith] Reference

I mentioned also in my review that Wake Up Dead, for all its rootedness in the Cape Town Flats, has structural similarities to old noir melodramas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is crime good for crime writers?] Reference

It's one of -- it's a sense of deep-rootedness in -- in -- in Plymouth for me, and that's where I expect to end my days and where I expect to be buried.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good Book: Reading the Bible with Mind & Heart] Reference

Because of this rootedness in empirical observation bolstered by mathematics, Gersonides believed that he had the tools to succeed where others had failed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gersonides] Reference

To ensure "a sense of rootedness" for his programs, Mori has hired two Japanese, prominent curator Fumio Nanjo and art dealer Kenjiro Shinohara, as his deputies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art On A New Level] Reference

Russia appears as the last defender of an alternative "Eurasian" - civilization marked by traditional beliefs, historical rootedness, high culture, and spiritual values.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moscow's Miscalculated Show of Strength: Eurasia Reacts Ambiguously to the Russian Caucasus Adventure] Reference

Linked to identity, heritage and culture not only exemplify the uniqueness of a nation but also ensures that a sense of belonging and rootedness is prevalent within a community.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Again, this rootedness in the here and now, dramatized repeatedly by Dante's compassionate offers to bring news home, makes "Purgatory" the least ephemeral of the three canticles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Purgatory, In All Its Nuance] Reference

Even the way the dancers run lacks the rootedness of traditional butoh.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

His work is steeped in Brazilian culture, and as a result, it possesses a rootedness that's rare in contemporary design.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fast Company] Reference

Our identities are continually in flux; but at the same time, we need a firm sense of rootedness, of belonging to something stable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Undercover Music News] Reference